Pocket memorandum holder



Dec. 18, 1923.

H. HAMMITT POCKET MEMORANDUM HOLDER Filed Feb. 2 1921 Fatented Dec. 18, l923.'

unman sraras Howaan I-IAMMITT, or rnarivrrlinn, NEW JERSEY.

POCKET iamronannura nornanj Application filed February 2, 1921. Serial No. 441,767.

I '0 all whom may concern,

Be it known that I, HOWARD HAMMITT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Plainfield, New Jersey, have invented the following new and useful Improvements in Pocket Memorandum Holders.

My invention relates to a pocket memorandum holder which is light and compact and which constitutes a backing sheet having at one edge a transparent, expansible pocket in which is resiliently held a stack of memorandum sheets, whereby said sheets may be received and releasably gripped in a variety of positions to permit adjusting a memorandum sheet or sheets so that any part of the surface of the uppermost sheet may be written upon while it is supported by the backing and subject to the grip of the pocket, through which when it is returned to its usual position any data so written and Within the pocket may then be read. Thus the top sheet may be turned or skewed to free from the pocket the surface on which it is desired to write. Ifthere is occasion to write beyond the edge of the backing, the sheet may of course be again adjusted accordingly, but this is usually not necessary.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my pocket memorandum holder, and

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view looking toward the back of the holder, parts of the backing being broken away.

The sheet of transparent material, as pyroxylin, is made preferably about 1/64 thick so that its body portion 1 will be sufficiently thick to constitute a backing. The sheet has one edge 2 looped and returning for a considerable distance on the body 1 so as to overlie a relatively large part thereof and resiliently opposing movement away from the body, thus forming an expansible pocket which since the crease or closed end of the loop has a relatively long radius is wide s0 as to accommodate a stack of memorandum sheets and which holds said sheets against the backing and protects them. The loop as a whole preferably narrows toward its inner end and has its inner edge relatively close to if not in contact with the body when the stack of momorandum sheets is removed, the preferred construction being that illustrated in which the edge 2 forms a more or less nearly closed loop. As a guide for the stack of sheets and for convenience in the operation and manipulation of the expansible pocket this edge is provided with an outturned lip 3 by which the edge 2 may be forced or pulled outwardaway from the body of the sheet to permit insertion, adjustment or removal of the stack of memorandum sheets 4 "or of individual sheets, thus giving the pocket a mouth of the width requisite to admit any given number of sheets within the range of the device and serving also to guide the sheets into the pocket wherein they are gripped on release of said lip, as well as to permit a sheet or sheets to be skewed or adjusted as shown in Fig. 1 in order that any part of it may be written upon whileproperly backed and held. In order to give a better gripon the memorandum sheets the part a of the edge 2 adjacent the lip 3 and which bears upon the sheets is roughened in any suitable way as by check lines produced by rubbing with emery paper or in any other efi'ective manner.

The convenience of such a pocket memorandumholder, particularly in view of its capability of receiving and resiliently grasping any reasonable number of memorandum sheets, and its stifl' but transparent nature, which renders it both a backing and a protective, transparent grip and binder is evident.

Claim:

A pocket memorandum holder longer than it is wide, adapted to be held in the hand and consisting of a sheet of resilient transparent material having its long edge at the left side looped and returning on the body of the sheet for about a third of the width of the holder so as to overlie a relatively large part of said sheet which constitutes a backing, the crease or closed end of the loop having a relatively long radius and the loop as a whole narrowing toward its inner end, movement away from the body being thus resiliently opposed by said edge, said edge being provided with a sheet-guiding lip and with a roughened portion on its underside adjacent said lip for retaining a sheet against slipping, said edge thus forming a transparent expansible sheet retaining pocket extending along the left side of the holder, a stack of memorandum sheets variable in number received and resiliently and adjust ably gripped in said pocket, protected there by and held against the backing sheet,

whereby the uppermost sheet may be written upon when gripped by the pocket and supported by the backing the data so written being visible through the pocket when the sheet is returned thereto and whereby the falling away of said sheets from the backing when the device is turned so that the sheets are on the underside is prevented specification.

the pocket by virtue of its expansibility being capable of admitting the stack Whatever 10 its number of sheets Within the rangeof the In testimony whereof I have signed this HOWARD HAM.MITT. 

